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The National Book Foundation has announced several changes to the selection and awards process of the annual National Book Awards. There will now be both a long list of finalists announced in September, followed by a short list in October. Also, the judges on the selection committee will no longer be only writers, but will include booksellers, critics, and librarians.

Melville House is hiring a managing editor. They’re asking for at least two years of book publishing experience and a willingness to “tolerate malarky.”

New Yorkers: This Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of Triple Canopy’s move to Greenpoint, which they celebrated at the time by holding a marathon reading of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans. Now, to celebrate, they’re holding... a marathon reading of The Making of Americans: “Over one weekend, an invited list of New York–based artists, writers, publishers, scholars, and other collaborators will gather in Greenpoint to perform the entirety of Stein’s text in a continuous read-in, expected to last 52 hours.” (Bookforum's Michael Miller will be among the readers.)